Deuteronomy 2:10

New Century Version

(The Emites, who lived in Ar before, were strong people, and there were many of them. They were very tall, like the Anakites.

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
(The Emim lived therein before, a people great, and many, and tall, as the `Anakim:

King James Version
The Emims dwelt therein in times past, a people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakims;

Lexham English Bible
(The Emim previously lived in it, a people large, numerous, and tall, like the Anakites.

English Standard Version
(The Emim formerly lived there, a people great and many, and tall as the Anakim.

New English Translation
(The Emites used to live there, a people as powerful, numerous, and tall as the Anakites.

Amplified Bible
(The Emim lived there in times past, a people great and numerous, and as tall as the Anakim.

New American Standard Bible
"(The Emim lived there previously, a people as great, numerous, and tall as the Anakim.

Geneva Bible (1587)
The Emims dwelt therein in times past, a people great and many, & tall, as the Anakims.

Legacy Standard Bible
(The Emim lived there formerly, a people as great, numerous, and tall as the Anakim.

Contemporary English Version
Before the Lord gave the Moabites their land, a large and powerful tribe lived there. They were the Emim, and they were as tall as the Anakim.

Complete Jewish Bible
(The Emim used to live there, a great and numerous people as tall as the ‘Anakim.

Darby Translation
(The Emim dwelt therein in times past, a people great, and many, and tall as the Anakim.

Easy-to-Read Version
(In the past, the Emites lived in Ar. They were strong people, and there were many of them. They were very tall, like the Anakites.

George Lamsa Translation
The Amney dwelt in it formerly, a people great and many and tall, like giants;

Good News Translation
(A mighty race of giants called the Emim used to live in Ar. They were as tall as the Anakim, another race of giants.

Christian Standard Bible®
The Emim, a great and numerous people as tall as the Anakim, had previously lived there.

Literal Translation
The Emim lived there in days gone by, a great and plentiful people, and tall as the Anakim;

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
For Ar haue I geuen vnto the children of Lot in possession. The Emims dwelt there before tyme, which were a greate stronge people, & hye of stature, as the Enakims:

American Standard Version
(The Emim dwelt therein aforetime, a people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakim:

Bible in Basic English
(In the past the Emim were living there; a great people, equal in numbers to the Anakim and as tall;

Bishop's Bible (1568)
The Emims dwelt therin in tymes past, a people great, many, and tall, as the Anakims,

JPS Old Testament (1917)
The Emim dwelt therein aforetime, a people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakim;

King James Version (1611)
The Emims dwelt therein in times past, a people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakims:

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Formerly the Ommin dwelt in it, a great and numerous nation and powerful, like the Enakim.

English Revised Version
(The Emim dwelt therein aforetime, a people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakim:

Berean Standard Bible
(The Emites used to live there, a people great and many, as tall as the Anakites.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Emyn, `that is, griseful men, weren first dwelleris therof, a greet puple, and strong, and so hiy, that thei weren bileued as giantis,

Young's Literal Translation
`The Emim formerly have dwelt in it, a people great, and numerous, and tall, as the Anakim;

Update Bible Version
(The Emim dwelt therein previously, a people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakim:

Webster's Bible Translation
(The Emims dwelt in it in times past, a people great, and many, and tall as the Anakims;

World English Bible
(The Emim lived therein before, a people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakim:

New King James Version
(The Emim had dwelt there in times past, a people as great and numerous and tall as the Anakim.

New Living Translation
(A race of giants called the Emites had once lived in the area of Ar. They were as strong and numerous and tall as the Anakites, another race of giants.

New Life Bible
(The Emim had lived there before. These people were many and powerful, and as tall as the Anakim.

New Revised Standard
(The Emim—a large and numerous people, as tall as the Anakim—had formerly inhabited it.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
the Emim, formerly dwelt therein, - a people great and many and tall, like the Anakim.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The Emims first were the inhabitants thereof, a people great, and strong, and so tall, that like the race of the Enacims,

Revised Standard Version
(The Emim formerly lived there, a people great and many, and tall as the Anakim;

THE MESSAGE
The Emites (Monsters) used to live there—mobs of hulking giants, like Anakites. Along with the Anakites they were lumped in with the Rephaites (Ghosts) but in Moab they were called Emites. Horites also used to live in Seir, but the descendants of Esau took over and destroyed them, the same as Israel did in the land God gave them to possess.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
(The Emim lived there formerly, a people as great, numerous, and tall as the Anakim.

Contextual Overview

⁸ So we passed by our relatives, the descendants of Esau who lived in Edom. We turned off the Jordan Valley road that comes from the towns of Elath and Ezion Geber and traveled along the desert road to Moab. ⁹ Then the Lord said to me, "Don't bother the people of Moab. Don't go to war against them, because I will not give you any of their land as your own; I have given Ar to the descendants of Lot as their own." ¹⁰ (The Emites, who lived in Ar before, were strong people, and there were many of them. They were very tall, like the Anakites. ¹¹ The Emites were thought to be Rephaites, like the Anakites, but the Moabite people called them Emites. ¹² The Horites also lived in Edom before, but the descendants of Esau forced them out and destroyed them, taking their place as Israel did in the land the Lord gave them as their own.) ¹³ And the Lord said to me, "Now get up and cross the Zered Valley." So we crossed the valley. ¹⁴ It had been thirty-eight years from the time we left Kadesh Barnea until we crossed the Zered Valley. By then, all the fighting men from that time had died, as the Lord had promised would happen. ¹⁵ The Lord continued to work against them to remove them from the camp until they were all dead. ¹⁶ When the last of those fighting men had died, ¹⁷ the Lord said to me,

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

All the nations here mentioned appear to have been the posterity of Ham, who lay under the prophetical curse of Noah, which was thus executed upon this part of them by the Moabites and Edomites. Deuteronomy 2:11, Genesis 14:5

Reciprocal: Genesis 36:24 - found Numbers 13:28 - strong Numbers 13:33 - saw the giants Deuteronomy 2:21 - great 2 Samuel 21:16 - of the sons Amos 2:9 - whose

Cross-References

Psalms 46:4
There is a river that brings joy to the city of God, the holy place where God Most High lives.

Revelation 22:1
Then the angel showed me the river of the water of life. It was shining like crystal and was flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb

Gill's Notes on the Bible

The Emims dwelt there in time past,.... We read of them as early as the times of Chedorlaomer, Genesis 14:5 when their dwelling was in Kirjathaim, a city which Sihon king of the Amorites took from the Moabites, and which being taken from him, was with others given to the tribe of Reuben, Numbers 32:37. These are by some thought to be the same with the Yemim which Anah found and met with in the wilderness, and defeated, which we render "mules", Genesis 36:24. They had their name from the fear and terror they put men into because of their gigantic stature and great strength, as follows: it is probable they were the descendants of Ham:

a people great and many, and tall as the Anakims; who were very numerous, of a very bulky size of body, and of high stature, like the giants the spies had seen at Hebron, the sons of Anak, a noted giant there, Numbers 13:22.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

For the Emims, Horims, and Anakims, see the marginal references. These verses are either parenthetical or the insertion of a later hand.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Deuteronomy 2:10. The Emims dwelt therein — Calmet supposes that these people were destroyed in the war made against them by Chedorlaomer and his allies, Genesis 14:5. Lot possessed their country after the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrha. They are generally esteemed as giants; probably they were a hardy, fierce, and terrible people, who lived, like the wandering Arabs, on the plunder of others. This was sufficient to gain them the appellation of giants, or men of prodigious stature. See Deuteronomy 2:11.